All 6 Uses of
inhabitant
in
Atlas Shrugged
- While it was true that such areas offered little economic incentive at present, a public-spirited railroad, it was said, would undertake to provide transportation for the struggling inhabitants, since the prime purpose of a railroad was public service, not profit.†
Chpt 1.4
- The dinner was served by a silent figure in a white jacket, the only other inhabitant of the house, an elderly Indian with a stony face and a courteous manner.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- "-so when the Utah Institute of Technology was closed for lack of funds, he had remained there as night watchman and sole inhabitant of the place; the salary was sufficient to pay for his needs-and the Institute's laboratory was there, intact, for his own private, undisturbed use.†
Chpt 2.2
- The inhabitants of New York had never had to be aware of the weather.†
Chpt 2.5
- Well, one of them is a professor of economics who couldn't get a job outside, because he taught that you can't consume more than you have produced-one is a professor of history who couldn't get a job because he taught that the inhabitants of slums were not the men who made this country-and one is a professor of psychology who couldn't get a job because he taught that men are capable of thinking.†
Chpt 3.1
- The shaft of red smoke that shot to the sky on the night of January 22 and stood abnormally still for a while, like a solemn memorial obelisk, then wavered and swept back and forth across the sky, like a searchlight sending some undecipherable message, then went out as abruptly as it had come, marked the end of Rearden Steel-but the inhabitants of the area did not know it.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(inhabitant) a person who lives in a particular place